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or cold winds, this will hinder them from 

 hatching during the latter part of April 

 and beginning of May; and if you are 

 not then prepared with food, place the 

 bottle in a vefiel of cold water fo deep as 

 the eggs lie in it, or a little deeper, and 

 this will further retard their hatching. 



It may be faid, that the conftant attend- 

 ance of feeding the worms three or four 

 times a day would occafion too great a con- 

 finement, but this is a work which any 

 fervant, who has once feen it, may eafdy 

 perform -, and therefore, I think that a 

 lady might, even in thefe cUmates, make 

 herfelf a fait of filk with the tenth part of 

 the trouble, and by a more agreeable a- 

 mufement than that fed encary on@, which 

 compleats a wrought head-drefs. Moft 

 indeed that go about breeding filkv/orms, 

 do, for want of method, or by following 

 fanciful ones, make it a troublefome bufi- 

 nefs, and oft-times the very pains which 

 they take creates more labour. They let 

 the eggs be laid on paper, they are hatch'd 

 at very diftant times, they are fometimes 

 pick'd up fingly as they hatch, and placed 

 on ten times more leaves than are necefTary, 

 which occafions frequent clearing awav of 

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